UNSHACKLED! Audio Dramas

After receiving Christ, Dallas goes home. He and his dad fight and his dad again tries to kill him. Dallas goes back to his brother in New Orleans to be discipled. Returning home, he visits his dad, now diseased with diabetes. His dad rejects the gospel but accepts help through a partial foot amputation, hyperbaric oxygen treatment and dialysis. Dallas offers his kidney and the transplant is succe...

Bruce dreams of fame and fortune as a country music star. He smokes, drinks and uses drugs at fifteen, leaves home at 17 but manages to graduate. He’s arrested for burglary but given probation and a fine. He and his brother form a band and do well, but his brother is saved and quits. Bitter, Bruce goes it alone, does well, then goes to Nashville while his brother, Sammy, becomes a pastor. Sammy’s...

Bret has a grand mal seizure at age four that leaves him with a learning disability. A sister’s interest in the occult brings evil spirits into his life and he sets fires and steals. He is beaten for something his brother did. In high school friends try to lead him astray but with special help Bret graduates. He goes to church and is baptized but doesn’t understand the gospel until he’s 19 when he...

Growing up, Kevin fights to protect a brother with cerebral palsy. He starts drinking and using drugs at fifteen, is arrested at 16 & again at 17 so he joins the Navy & serves in Vietnam. Then he orchestrates his discharge by going AWOL. Back home he gets in trouble with drug dealers, flees to Oregon where a drug buddy kills a man with a gun Kevin has stolen. He’s sentenced to life in prison but p...

When she’s sixteen her mother dies and Bette becomes pregnant. She marries but is divorced after two years. Irresponsible, she becomes addicted to pot and parties, smuggles drugs from Mexico and is busted. She spends 30 days in jail but returns to drugs. She has a friend, Tracy, who parties with her and they try heroin and get mixed up with bikers. Trying to kick the habit, they go to church and B...

Bette drops heroin for Meth and her life becomes even more degrading. She’s arrested for burglary and her father refuses to bail her out or get an attorney. Faced with prison, she goes into hiding with a friend whose husband finds them. He sends Bette home on a bus and she decides to turn herself in. In jail she experiences the Lord and is born again. She goes to Bible study and worship and when s...

Terrson’s dad has a mistress, causing turmoil in the home. Shy and fearful, Terrson turns to alcohol as a teenager. She tries drugs but prefers alcohol. An alcoholic in her twenties, she struggles against drinking. She marries another alcoholic and they have two children. She manages to quit while she’s pregnant. She reads Leviticus and tries to follow God’s law so she’ll go to heaven but can’t. H...

Chuck grows us with an alcoholic dad and learns to fight. He joins the Marines and marries Lenora two months after they meet. She is horrified by his drinking and fighting. He becomes an officer, trains in counterintelligence and goes to Vietnam. In Hue he survives the Tet Offensive, escaping several traps for eight days. Finally he is rescued. Back home he debriefs POWs when the war ends and thei...

When he is three, David’s life is saved by the family dog. His mother takes him to church and he learns about God. He prays for peace after he argues too much as a teenager, and sees his father recover from a heart attack. But he turns away from God, Who doesn’t seem to answer his prayers. He drinks, joins the army, and realizes that God did answer his prayer for peace. But drugs and rock music lu...

Dave grows up with an alcoholic father and a mother who prays, reads the Bible and takes him to church. He fakes a conversion at age nine to please her. At thirteen he lives with a farmer for three years and learns many valuable lessons. Dave goes home and takes up drinking with friends. He joins the army and marries, but his drinking destroys his work and his marriage. The army gives him a less-t...

Alex grows up with alcohol and lives to get drunk in high school. He drops out to join the Navy where he learns to box and gets into numerous brawls. Drunk, he drives through a bridge railing into a muddy inlet but survives. He takes “the pledge”, moves around but can’t quit drinking even after he marries Eileen. She leaves him and he is so drunk he hears voices. A.A. helps him get sober and he go...

Martha’s father leads her to Christ when she is ten. Like him, she learns to take a stand for her faith and commits to being a missionary as a teenager. She travels as a soloist with an evangelist, then goes to Wheaton College where she meets Don, a pastor. They marry and go to Japan as missionaries in 1952 with their two sons. In spite of much illness, they stay and Don helps found a Christian Bi...

After Don’s father gets saved when Don is in high school, his parents put him in a Christian high school for his senior year, and Don gets saved. He goes to a Christian college, where he’s called to the mission field. But World War II interferes. He’s invited to pastor a church while he’s in graduate school and meets Martha. They marry. Don becomes assistant to the president of a Christian college...

Tillie grows up feeling unloved and marries four different men searching for love. Each husband is wrong for her. She makes bad decisions based on emotions instead of facts and leaves them out of fear. Her first daughter is born out of wedlock but her second husband adopts the girl. Tillie has several nervous breakdowns and lives mostly on welfare, turning to her sister and husband for help from t...

Fred and Janey marry after college, and he pursues his love of acting. They move to Chicago where he buys a Great Dane dog and does well. He gets roles on “Unshackled!” But when hard times come, he keeps feeding the dog even though his children go without things. Angry at his fate, he talks with Jack Odell and Genie Price who urge him to receive Christ. He reads the Bible and prays for salvation....

When he is a baby, Max Forman’s father dies in Russia, so his mother brings the children to Philadelphia to live near her Orthodox Jewish parents. Proud but poor, Max becomes a coppersmith in the Naval shipyards when World War II comes. He marries Evelyn and they have a daughter. He rides to work with Tony, a Christian who witnesses constantly. Then Max changes jobs and the rides end. After he get...

Kevin repeats a prayer at age nine and thinks he is saved but grows cold to God. As a teenager he starts drinking. A bad accident nearly kills him but he doesn’t repent. He starts using drugs, including cocaine and Meth. He lives with Debbie and they have a son that he neglects. He’s arrested and spends 7 months in jail. His parents pray for him, but he ruins his father’s business. Released, he st...

Until age six Eric is raised by his grandmother. He is molested several times, then his mother and stepfather take him to Watts in L.A. where he goes to Bible Clubs. He stutters badly, is ridiculed and bullied so he forms a gang, then joins the Crips at 13. He defies his abusive stepfather who leaves home. Eric’s mother drinks too much. He meets his real father and goes back to Arkansas several ti...

After his salvation Eric smokes pot and struggles with demonic oppression until he repents. He goes to a Christian leadership training ranch in Kansas where he learns humility and trust in the Lord after some conflict with students. Then he goes to Wichita as an urban missionary. He dates Andrea but both waffle about commitment, she as a victim of incest, he because of his gang background and stut...

John learns drama and zest for life from his mother, who dies when he is 14. He joins in the Navy, returns home and goes to drama school in New York City. He works at Saks but returns home after five years. His father disdains acting, which John pursues, frequently changing jobs. He goes to Bible study and hears about a Jesus that his liberal church doesn’t teach. He prays for salvation. His fathe...

John feels called by God to give up acting and go to Bible school. Then he applies to a mission group and is accepted for Japan. In language school in Japan he meets Barb and they marry. A son and daughter are born to them. The conclusion of his testimony deals with their means of reaching the Japanese people, their furloughs home to gain support and God’s use of his use of acting to achieve those...

Spinal Meningitis as a toddler leaves David with A.D.D. and he is given Ritalin, a drug that leaves him by turns disruptive or zombie-like. He is eleven when his dad dies, and at 13 he’s put in a home for disturbed youth. He feels rejected, runs away, addicted to drugs. He commits burglary, goes to prison and when he’s released he goes to California. For 13 years his is a life of crime, drugs and...

Hans and his family immigrate to the U.S. in 1952 when he’s 13. He works hard to lose his accent, falls in love with Mary and joins the Nevada Air National Guard after graduation. He learns to drink with friends and he and Mary wed. He quits the Guard and becomes a cabinet maker, then becomes a realtor. His excessive drinking, threats and a bad accident sends Mary into a breakdown and suicide atte...

Percy’s stepfather takes the family to church where they all profess faith when he is about ten. He sings in the choir and is an honor roll student in high school. But gangs terrorize him, and he goes to live with his grandparents in Chicago. There he falls under the sway of drugs and gangs. He sells drugs and is arrested, charged with a felony. He spends two-and-a-half years in prison, goes back...

John’s father goes to prison and he grows up never having his dad hug him or say, “I love you.” His grandmother reads him the Psalms, but disillusionment leads him to rebel. He drinks, smokes and runs away at 13, returning to finish two years of high school. At 19 he marries a girl with a baby and they binge drink for several years. When her drunken relative threatens to shoot John, he leaves and...